It is the time of the season for TwinSpires harness blog to select its own features. As December slips into winter we are hard at work to find the best possible races…
Tag: Meadowlands
Thursday, Nov. 21 A Thursday Thrush of Power Plays (PoP) lasted all afternoon, beginning at Saratoga and finishing at Philly. The first batch of PoPs turned out more successful for the single-race…
One of the last big stakes programs of the season features freshmen on the precipice of turning three and aged horses on the verge of getting older. The Meadowlands holds the Fall…
Thursday, Nov. 14 At Dover there were four Matron stakes for three-year-olds. Our Breeders Crown alumni bet-backs, with a few in each division, received special conditions again this week for the…
Thursday, Nov. 7 At Dover there were three Matron stakes for two-year-olds (one was a non-betting event). Though we encouraged our Breeders Crown alumni bet-backs with the highest odds as top choices…
Autumn is sucking all of the warmth out of the air in the northeast, except for what heat is emanating from isolated harness tracks bracing for winter. It’s Matron season as Dover…
Friday, Nov. 1 At Hoosier, our Breeders Crown alumni bet-backs from the 2019 finals, were much the best in four of the track’s featured sophomore events, and the raw payouts do not…
The Breeders Crown (BC) finals are in the books, but some of the super horses involved may race again in the next two months. Enter November and the scattered few stakes left…
It was this reporter’s 30th year of Hambletonian-day coverage and though I did not cash a winning ticket in the event, I continue to study the final heat to extract bet-backs;…
HAMBLETONIAN TRAIL The Hambletonian elims and final results. It was an opportunistic win by a colt we kept cool about all season—Forbidden Trade. The Canadian son of the magnificent sire Kadabra,…
The Meadowlands’ closing program on the first weekend of August is, definitively an august event. Saturday, Aug. 3 presents a parade of star pacers and trotters creating traffic on two turns—and…
THE 2019 HAMBLETONIAN OAKS The fillies have been cast for the Hambletonian Oaks Final on Aug. 3 at the Meadowlands. Our suggested contenders follow our analysis, per filly (in alphabetic order;…